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Madeleine
Oct 24, 2011 rated it it was ok
Shelves: speculative-fiction, swana, books-for-hipsters
I just do not *get* Paolo Coelho. And I keep trying to read his books, because several dear friends think he's amazing and think he will change my life and etc. I have enough respect for *them* that I may try a third book one of these days, and then call it good.

This book is super new-agey (as was the other Coelho book I read, Brida. Except!! The characters are constantly poking fun at new-age stuff, and writing things off as "new-agey." Thus demonstrating that they are different. This is kind o ...more
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Sarah
Apr 06, 2009 rated it did not like it
Shelves: book-club-dm, half-read, abandoned
I really wanted to like this, even going so far as to look to the things I didn't like about it for a way to encourage thought and discussion. But I just can't get into it. I am very uncomfortable with all the new age mysticism and going into trances while dancing to connect with the Universe and all of that. And I just can't get past that. I feel it in my gut, and there are just too many books out there I want to read to continue with this one. ...more
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Jillian
Jan 17, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Enchanting.
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Sera
Apr 06, 2009 rated it liked it
Shelves: literary-fiction, own
Pretty good read, but The Alchemist remains Coelho's gold standard. ...more
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Astrid Lim
May 14, 2008 rated it liked it
Shelves: literature
kenapa yaaa...kok agak mengecewakan buat gue...gak seperti buku coelho lainnya...or maybe it's just me... ...more
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Tracy
May 29, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction
Interesting viewpoints -- recap on the Big Beach Ball in a room theory I learnt in another book.
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Rachel
Aug 21, 2007 rated it liked it
Pam
Sep 20, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Wendy
Dec 26, 2007 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: translated
Cheryl
Feb 05, 2008 marked it as consider-reading  ·  review of another edition
Elizabeth Weltin
Feb 25, 2008 marked it as to-read
O'Rissa
Mar 01, 2008 marked it as to-read
Haya
Mar 10, 2008 rated it liked it
Anna
Apr 07, 2008 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Linda
Sep 19, 2008 rated it it was amazing
erin
Jan 03, 2009 marked it as to-read
Nikki
May 06, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2009-reads, latin-american-authors
Shabz
Oct 11, 2009 rated it it was ok
Anika
Apr 12, 2010 rated it liked it
Jackie Wayment
Jul 29, 2011 marked it as to-read
Tania
Dec 16, 2011 marked it as to-read
Ali
Aug 21, 2014 marked it as to-read
Cheryl Scaccio
Jan 17, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: novel
Lindsay
Apr 16, 2018 marked it as to-read
Brenda
Jun 29, 2018 marked it as to-read
Liz
Apr 30, 2019 rated it liked it
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